The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-25

Says The B0sf0n Herald: n tailor VINO u
ingenious enough to invent scheme for sum
mcr clothing for men which will leave out the
sta, med shirt and still be neat and becoming,
will merit the praise OF many sufferers and
ought to make fortune.
A fish In the Gulf Of Mexico has the pecu-
liarity of always haunting old wrecks and
sunken piling, and frequently swlms around
the wharves 1t is called the Juneiish, be-
cause 1t does not appear till the month OF
June, though 1t remains all summer. 1t Is
chiefly caught near sunken wrecks.
A citizen Of New Haven, Conn, has made
an important invention In electric lighting
His device consists Of an apparatus whereby
burntout carbons are automatically replaced
as fast as need be. BY his design IN electric
light will burn steadily for ninety hours or
more without the need Of any attention.
"a number of our leading lawyers" says
The burlington (vt) Free Press, "are still
engaged in trying to shift the responsibility
upon each other for adjourning an important
hearing to attend the last ball game. At last
accounts It looked as II the odds we're two to
one in favot of the court as the guilty man."
The citizens Of Portland, Oregon, have dc.
cided to offer q cash subsidy In the proportion
Of 81 to every SO furnished by anyone who
will build, 4uip, and give bonds to maintain
hotel In that city, or else they will Join In
organizing stock company for that purpose.
No plan calling for an expenditure OF less
than $4,000 will be entertained.
Visitors to the White mountains may be In
tercsted In looking for tree which DR.. Prime
says has to be looked for to be seen. I'm
front of the Profile house." he writes to The
New York Journal Of Commerce, "where the
slope Of Cannon mountain cuts sharp across
the blue sky Of the notch, tall pine, rising
far above his fellows, spreads two limbs, SO
that 1t makes distinct cross, in silhoutte."
Baseball is much appreciated In Texas,
where both city and country papers vie with
each other In their kindly notices OF the
national game. The Brenhdnl Times says
sour baseball boys are doing nicely. john
sons leg is in splints and the bones knitting
rapidly DR.. Jones now thinks he will be
able to save Campbell's eye, and 1t has been
ascertaned that two instead Of four OF Mar
shall's ribs were broken"
Nell Caulfeld, an English resident OF New
Brunswick, N. j., had his wife arrested on
curious complaint. He had been In the habit
Of staying out late at night. His wife protest
ed, and, arguments failing, she finally locked
the door and refused him entrance He re-
turned the next day, but she was still obdur-
ate. After trying repeatedly for two weeks to
get an entrance into his own house he gave up
the task and made complaint against his
wife,
In the cities OF Worcester and Fall River,
Mass, and the town Of Somerset, the Swedish
population is rapidly becoming an important
element The immigrants are mostly young
girls, who seek employment as house-servants.
Unlike other foreigners, many OF them inter-
marry with the natives. There are already
two weekly papers in the Swedish language
published In Worcester, and In Fall River
there arc regular Lutheran Swedish religious
services.
Clara Belle says a young man, thinking
pretty well Of himself, but clad in clothes OF
flimsy make, got into New York street-car
filed with ladies. A thread on the outer seam
of his pants-leg annoyed him, and he pulled.
The thread wouldn't break, and the entire leg
was thrown open. In the general paralysis of
the car an ancient lady, tart of speech, offered
him !. Gin, saying: cpd pin myself up II
was you, and get my pants basted on some
other machine than the ready-rippcr. You
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